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...rural countryside. It is Big Steel's new Fairless Works. It will cost $400 million. Giant earthmovers are clawing across 3,800 acres of bean fields and tomato patches; 6,000 construction workers are laying 20 miles of paved roads and 75 miles of railroad. Huge shovels scoop out the river basin to dock ore ships that will come from Venezuela...
...Scoop. In Halifax, Nova Scotia, the Mail-Star reported: "Mrs. J. E. Montgomery, Robie Street, will regret to learn that she is a patient in hospital...
Perhaps to console himself, Dobie takes to devouring something called a "Varsity Voom" at the "Kozy Kampus Korner." The recipe: "One scoop vanilla, one scoop chocolate, one scoop coleslaw, hot fudge, and rolled anchovies...
Thus he was first with the story that the A.F.L. had secretly decided to pull out of the United Labor Policy Committee (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). For Stark, the scoop was a valedictory. Last week, after 28 years in the rough & tumble of the union beat, ailing Reporter Stark, 62, left the Times's Washington bureau for a month's vacation. On his return he will take up the easier chore of writing Times editorials and interpretive articles...
...experimental car's headlights are concealed behind the air-scoop grill which revolves at the flick of a switch. Other features: thermostatically controlled electric seat warmers, fenders that swing up on hinges to make tire-changing easier. Motorists are not exactly clamoring for some of those innovations, but Le Sabre has one feature that is in widespread public demand: built-in hydraulic jacks under each wheel...